Talk given at the SMK/Maersk event Data in Art | Art in Data
with Jonas Heide Smith, Head of Digital, SMK
26 April 2017
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-in-art-art-in-data-tickets-33142653569
1. The Art of Open Data
Merete Sanderhoff, Senior Advisor
@msanderhoff
Jonas Heide Smith, Head of Digital
@jonassmith
2. The National Gallery of Denmark
Western art from 1300 to the present
Research-based work
450,000 visitors a year
260,000 artworks
66 % in the public domain
27 % digitised
3. We give you access to art
and our knowledge no
matter where you are
9. ”There is not a single physical space
where all our heritage can be shown,
but on the Internet you can.”
Democratizing the Rijksmuseum, 2014
http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/Democratising%20the%20Rijksmuseum.pdf
10. Today, we can offer online services
that are available from everywhere to
anyone seeking "to participate in the
cultural life of the community, to enjoy
the arts and to share in scientific
advancement and its benefits.”
Article 27.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
11.
12. “We are all in the attention business, and we have to play
to win. (...)
To direct attention to the real knowledge that we
produce, publishing our material online for free use and
reuse is the first step.
It is in keeping with our mission (...) that we have to fight
back — and infuse this new ecosystem with all the
antibodies we have in hand, especially facts and
knowledge.”
Peter B. Kaufmann, In the Post-Truth Era, 2017
http://www.chronicle.com/article/In-the-Post-Truth-Era/239628
13. New technologies help us move forward
Mass digitisation OCR scanning/reading Crowdsourcing Citizen science
14. New technologies help us move forward
Mass digitisation OCR scanning/reading Crowdsourcing Citizen science
And people!
15. ”No matter who you are, most of the
smartest people work for someone
else.”
Joy’s Law
Attributed to Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
16.
17. Works that are in the Public Domain in
analogue form continue to be in the
Public Domain once they have been
digitised.
http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/
Public%20Domain%20Charter%20-%20EN.pdf
28. “It’s a giant toolbox with a fantastic
amount of materials to work with.”
Feedback from a designer involved in the SMK remix challenge Mix it up! 2015
53. Karel Dujardin, Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles, 1663.
Organic
Allegory
Water
Clam shell
Natural
Dominant color: Blue
Year: 1663
Artist: Karel Dujardin
Behavioural
Often seen from Netherlands
Often seen with Matisse
Most shared in March 2017
54. APIApplication Programming Interface: An online service which holds
all of SMK’s data and can deliver it in any desired form to any
system.
E.g. “Send hi-resolution photos of all German art created between
1880 and 1898”
61. But what’s the impact?
Does it improve the way our children are educated?
Does it provide citizens with new useful skills?
Does it enable creatives and innovators to make
groundbreaking new works?
Does it result in a stronger, more cohesive society?
62. IMPACT
Measure what is important, don't
make important what you can
measure.
- Robert McNamara
63. Sharing is Caring 2017
Digitisation and social impact?
sharecare.nu
#sharecare17